8 more people are now trapped in the modern day indefinitely as the 10 jiggawatts required to collectively power their time-travelling deloreans has been cut off at the plant.
Summers in Minnesota are among my favorite but the reason they feel so great is because winter was so awful! My long-term plan is to live 9 months out of the year in the SE or pacific NW and then spend as much time in minnesota as possible in the summer.
1985-1987 - CP/M 87-96 Various versions of DOS 93-present Linux, FreeBSD 96-98 Win95 98-2000 Win98 2000-2002 Win2000 2002-2008 WinXP 2008-present Vista SP1
Note the linux years there. I was running slackware before many knew linux existed. With that said, am I a minority for actually having a positive Vista experience? Yes, I have a powerful machine with lots of RAM, but so far I've found that I'm quicker to navigate and more productive in Vista than I ever was in XP. I run the 64 bit version and have had very few problems. I think many of the things they have done are a great improvement over previous versions of windows.
I submitted to Slashdot but apparently you guys weren't interested yet:)
From my article:
After having read the article about a new USPS surcharge that could cut into Netflix's profits I got to thinking about the future of movie rentals. If you're a Netflix customer and haven't tried their streaming video service, I recommend you give it a shot. I've noticed the weak selection of titles available on it and can only imagine that it must be a licensing issue with the MPAA or specific rights-holder. While I enjoy their online video-watching service, I don't enjoy watching movies on my laptop as much as on my TV and I also don't enjoy having to plug my laptop into my TV. There is a feasible solution for all of this covering concerns like licensing agreements (giving consumers better selection) to proper television integration (no more laptops plugged into the TV.) Read on to find out how I see a successful movie rental business operating in the near future.... Full Article (Online Movie Rentals 2.0)
I picked this book up last month and read probably 30% of it so far. All I can say is that it is very well done and although I get slightly annoyed that he references other materials without providing more concrete examples, overall the book is very well done and really does provide a good dictionary of patterns as well as comparisons to different patterns with pros and cons for each.
IMO, this book is a must-have for writing enterprise apps.
You don't quite get it. One of the first paragraphs in this book is "What differentiates Enterprise applications from all other apps"
In other words, he basically explains why you can't just "whip up" a web app in perl that will work for a 10,000 user system that uses 5,000 datapoints with some data having 100 different business logic cases between.
Storing an object may sound like a very black and white thing, but in an enterprise context, it's all about the relationships and the logic and if you don't follow some of these patterns you will end up telling your boss that the must-have requirements for the app simply aren't possible because your design doesn't allow for it, so he can go ahead and tell the CEO that it's not possible to put that last sale in the system because your app can't support the terms of it in relation to the CRM portion of the app.
What's up with this guy? He acts like we all have some consumer electronics quota we have to meet so he is going to help us try to figure out how to more effectively burn our money.
Let's see... This cash in my checking account is no good.. I better buy more stuff.. but I don't really need anything.. So I'll compare arbitrary products and buy which one I think is best.
> Forged source IP's should be dropped at the edge already.
No, They shouldn't! Forged sources are a way of getting 2 firewalled clients to talk directly to each other by means of spoofing each others filewalls with the forged source which is of the gatekeeper. It's the ONLY WAY to do this, and if you get rid of forged sources, you get rid of direct connections between firewalled IPs.
I'm looking to collaborate US (for starters) Free 802.11b networks. Basically I'm willing to put up an AP for a node and I'd like it if others who are willing to do this would submit locations so we can start mapping out coverage. I live in chicago so this is my first logical city to work in. I could also use help with design and maintenance of the site. Wouldn't it be sweet if we could walk anywhere with our 802.11b devices and have at least some kind of service, for free? I HAVE A DREAM, DAMNIT!
http://www.freenets.org
Honestly, why not hit it at the source of the problem? Force IPV6, keep 4 around for backwards compatability and eventually it will be phased out. This is such a ridiculous problem.
Problem: We're running out of IP addresses
Solution: NAT everything
New Problem: NAT has flaws
New Solution: Create a hack to work around them
Scratch that, I'm all for IPV6 to finally get implemented and give every computer a unique IP!
I wonder what the round trip to my microwave would be..
The real discussion of the thermal detection is discussed from page 22 to page 28 of the thermal guidelines document. They had a few interesting bits in there. For one, the thermister always works (you can always see how hot your core is) but the actual modulator is disabled by default. Now they do have specs that call for it to be enabled on any system pre-built, but for most techies, they should be able to disable it in the bios (provided the SMR is there) or it might need to be enabled somehow to work at all.
I can't say that this whole processor-limiting thing is terrible, I mean, there are reasonable ways around it (big heat sink, lotsa fans) and you actually have to opt-in to use it.
Also I thought I might add that 50% is NOT the hard number of cycles reduced, you can set that value to whatever you want the cool-down duty cycle to be (see page 24-26).
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8 more people are now trapped in the modern day indefinitely as the 10 jiggawatts required to collectively power their time-travelling deloreans has been cut off at the plant.
I'm moving to Graphene Valley before it gets overcrowded!
Summers in Minnesota are among my favorite but the reason they feel so great is because winter was so awful! My long-term plan is to live 9 months out of the year in the SE or pacific NW and then spend as much time in minnesota as possible in the summer.
I'd say: "Programming is hard let's do Java"
"Java is hard. Let's do PHP."
My Desktop OS History:
1985-1987 - CP/M
87-96 Various versions of DOS
93-present Linux, FreeBSD
96-98 Win95
98-2000 Win98
2000-2002 Win2000
2002-2008 WinXP
2008-present Vista SP1
Note the linux years there. I was running slackware before many knew linux existed. With that said, am I a minority for actually having a positive Vista experience? Yes, I have a powerful machine with lots of RAM, but so far I've found that I'm quicker to navigate and more productive in Vista than I ever was in XP. I run the 64 bit version and have had very few problems. I think many of the things they have done are a great improvement over previous versions of windows.
Does that make me evil?
They're still driving gas cars!!
Go electric - www.diyelectriccar.com
I submitted to Slashdot but apparently you guys weren't interested yet :)
From my article:
After having read the article about a new USPS surcharge that could cut into Netflix's profits I got to thinking about the future of movie rentals. If you're a Netflix customer and haven't tried their streaming video service, I recommend you give it a shot. I've noticed the weak selection of titles available on it and can only imagine that it must be a licensing issue with the MPAA or specific rights-holder. While I enjoy their online video-watching service, I don't enjoy watching movies on my laptop as much as on my TV and I also don't enjoy having to plug my laptop into my TV. There is a feasible solution for all of this covering concerns like licensing agreements (giving consumers better selection) to proper television integration (no more laptops plugged into the TV.) Read on to find out how I see a successful movie rental business operating in the near future.... Full Article (Online Movie Rentals 2.0)
There are too many politics involved with the oil industry and electric cars, so we choose to build our own. http://www.diyelectriccar.com/
Don't confuse economic liberties with civil rights and social liberties...
I picked this book up last month and read probably 30% of it so far. All I can say is that it is very well done and although I get slightly annoyed that he references other materials without providing more concrete examples, overall the book is very well done and really does provide a good dictionary of patterns as well as comparisons to different patterns with pros and cons for each.
IMO, this book is a must-have for writing enterprise apps.
You don't quite get it. One of the first paragraphs in this book is "What differentiates Enterprise applications from all other apps"
In other words, he basically explains why you can't just "whip up" a web app in perl that will work for a 10,000 user system that uses 5,000 datapoints with some data having 100 different business logic cases between.
Storing an object may sound like a very black and white thing, but in an enterprise context, it's all about the relationships and the logic and if you don't follow some of these patterns you will end up telling your boss that the must-have requirements for the app simply aren't possible because your design doesn't allow for it, so he can go ahead and tell the CEO that it's not possible to put that last sale in the system because your app can't support the terms of it in relation to the CRM portion of the app.
What's up with this guy? He acts like we all have some consumer electronics quota we have to meet so he is going to help us try to figure out how to more effectively burn our money.
Let's see... This cash in my checking account is no good.. I better buy more stuff.. but I don't really need anything.. So I'll compare arbitrary products and buy which one I think is best.
> Forged source IP's should be dropped at the edge already.
No, They shouldn't! Forged sources are a way of getting 2 firewalled clients to talk directly to each other by means of spoofing each others filewalls with the forged source which is of the gatekeeper. It's the ONLY WAY to do this, and if you get rid of forged sources, you get rid of direct connections between firewalled IPs.
I'm looking to collaborate US (for starters) Free 802.11b networks. Basically I'm willing to put up an AP for a node and I'd like it if others who are willing to do this would submit locations so we can start mapping out coverage. I live in chicago so this is my first logical city to work in. I could also use help with design and maintenance of the site. Wouldn't it be sweet if we could walk anywhere with our 802.11b devices and have at least some kind of service, for free? I HAVE A DREAM, DAMNIT!
http://www.freenets.org
Honestly, why not hit it at the source of the problem? Force IPV6, keep 4 around for backwards compatability and eventually it will be phased out. This is such a ridiculous problem. Problem: We're running out of IP addresses Solution: NAT everything New Problem: NAT has flaws New Solution: Create a hack to work around them Scratch that, I'm all for IPV6 to finally get implemented and give every computer a unique IP! I wonder what the round trip to my microwave would be..
The real discussion of the thermal detection is discussed from page 22 to page 28 of the thermal guidelines document. They had a few interesting bits in there. For one, the thermister always works (you can always see how hot your core is) but the actual modulator is disabled by default. Now they do have specs that call for it to be enabled on any system pre-built, but for most techies, they should be able to disable it in the bios (provided the SMR is there) or it might need to be enabled somehow to work at all.
I can't say that this whole processor-limiting thing is terrible, I mean, there are reasonable ways around it (big heat sink, lotsa fans) and you actually have to opt-in to use it.
Also I thought I might add that 50% is NOT the hard number of cycles reduced, you can set that value to whatever you want the cool-down duty cycle to be (see page 24-26).
-Rob